REMOVAL OF RUBBISH.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 1189, 11 December 1924, Page 6

REMOVAL OF RUBBISH.

(To the Editor.) Sir, — Your aub-leader last evening was timely and to the point, and the views expressed will meet with the unanimous approval of the ratepayers and householders. The council having erected a destructor at the abattoirs adjacent to our meat —and without the authority of the ratepayer!—and having procured electric trucks, also without authority so far as 1 urn aware, are merely carrying out their lop-sided policy of flying in the face of providence by ordering us to carry our rubbish-tins from the back of the house on certain days and placing them at our front gates. Of course this may necessitate our buying overalls, 'but that is a mere nothing. It is quite likely that the council will in furtherance of their lopsided policy insist on us painting the tins green and picking out the handles and lids in old-gold. As the council's workmen are the first consideration and the ratepayers’ interests play second fiddle thereto, I feel sure that presently a ukase will arrive insisting on all householders standing-by so that the four gentlemen who accompany the electric truck will not bo required to more than pull up on tho road opposite ' the front gate. Recently the council had a clean-up “week” which ran for nearly a month. The writer tastefully arranged at his front gate all the old tins and other rubbish he had accumulated and they were there for Show week when he had visitors. —I am, etc., “THE LAST STRAW.” Palmerston North, lltli Dec., 1923.